These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The international bestselling writer Ann Patchett has been described as 'one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives' and 'a master of her art' (Observer). In her new collection, with her trademark blend of wryness, intelligence and wisdo ...Show more
Elizabeth Macarthur's Letters by Kate Grenville
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Kate Grenville's collection of Elizabeth Macarthur's letters, the inspiration for her bestselling, award-winning novel A Room Made of Leaves. These letters were the starting point for Kate Grenville's bestselling novel A Room Made of Leaves. They inspired the portrait of her imagined Elizabeth Macarthu ...Show more
The World of Mab Grimwade by Thea Gardiner
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
An exquisitely packaged hardback revealing the untold story of an influential Australian philanthropist. Born into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887-1973), or 'Mab' to those who knew her, would grow up to make an enormous contribution to the a ...Show more
Teacher: One woman's struggle to keep the heart in teaching by Gabbie Stroud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A powerful and moving memoir about how the current system is letting down children and parents, and breaking dedicated teachers. Devastating, heart-breaking, enraging. 'Gabbie's story needs to be shouted from the rooftops. She very eloquently shows us why and how education needs to change... Teacher m ...Show more
Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large ...Show more
The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
'There is no jail that can imprison the free word, nor is there a siege tight enough that can prevent the spread of information.' - Mazen Darwish, Syrian human rights activist, in a speech given on April 23, 2016, following his release from jail in 2015. In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus w ...Show more
Going Under by Sonia Henry
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A compelling eye-opener written by one who clearly knows.' Judy Nunn, bestselling author of Sanctuary Dr Katarina 'Kitty' Holliday thought once she finished medical school and found gainful employment at one of Sydney's best teaching hospitals that her dream was just beginning. The hard years, she thoug ...Show more
Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here by Heather Rose
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from the award-winning author of Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love. And then it occurred to me that nothing bad ever happens here. Every human life is perfect in its own way. We cannot understand that, because ...Show more
I Am Malala (Teen Edition) by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
Paris or Die - A Memoir by Jayne Tuttle
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Paris. The beauty. The grime. The colours and thoughts and songs and sounds and children and dogs. The taste of strawberries, the sky, first métro, last métro, the bells, the dreams ... The city of light, it seems, has its own plans for Jayne. Drawn there in an entirely unforeseen way, she finds hersel ...Show more
The Wolf You Feed by Andrew Webster
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
"Celebrated sports journalist Andrew Webster has been on a mission to find the real Wayne Bennett. Over the course of two years, he has interviewed family, close friends, sworn enemies, colleagues, journalists, coaches and players, as well as Bennett himself, and trawled through acres of print and recor ...Show more
Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Heide Art in Victoria | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Much has been written about the lives and art of Heide, but finally the remaining members of the inner circle have entrusted the truth to be told through this intimate biography of John and Sunday Reed. Equal parts romance and tragedy, Modern Love explores the lives of these champions of successive gene ...Show more